"Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
by Mark Twain

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     So we went over to where the canoe was, and while he built a fire in a grassy open place amongst the trees, I fetched meal and bacon and coffee, and coffee-pot and frying-pan, and sugar and tin cups, and the nigger was set back considerable, because he reckoned it was all done with witchcraft. I catched a good big catfish, too, and Jim cleaned him with his knife, and fried him.

     When breakfast was ready we lolled on the grass and eat it smoking hot. Jim laid it in with all his might, for he was most about starved. Then when we had got pretty well stuffed, we laid off and lazied. By and by Jim says:

     "But looky here, Huck, who wuz it dat 'uz killed in dat shanty ef it warn't you?"

 

     Then I told him the whole thing, and he said it was smart. He said Tom Sawyer couldn't get up no better plan than what I had. Then I says:

     "How do you come to be here, Jim, and how'd you get here?"

     He looked pretty uneasy, and didn't say nothing for a minute. Then he says:

     "Maybe I better not tell."

     "Why, Jim?"

     "Well, dey's reasons. But you wouldn' tell on me ef I uz to tell you, would you, Huck?"

 
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